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Comparison

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Price

FREE/

System Requirements

Browser-Based / No Install

*

Supports browsers on Windows, Mac & Linux"

Hosted and on-premise versions

Conferencing Features

Live conferencing - synchronous

Desktop sharing

Instantly change presenters

Application sharing (remote control)

Screen capturing

Session recording

Synchronized and unsynchronized page navigation

Supports up to 100 participants in a meeting (only 10 are free)

Telephone conferencing

FREE

Built-in voice over IP (VoIP)

Webcam

Collaboration Features

"Persistent collaboration - asynchronous, anytime"

Multiple on-demand sessions

Public and private text chat

Whiteboarding and annotation tools

Filter whiteboard drawings by user

Searchable contextual sidebar forums

Voice notes

"Hand raising, slow down, away from meeting buttons"

Polling/Quizing

"Plug-ins (e.g. graphing calculator, equation editor)"

Content Management Features

"Flexible, PowerPoint-like authoring"

Broad file-type support (including audio and video)

Native upload of documents (no prior conversion required)

"Dynamic creation, reordering, intermixing, adding and deleting various file types in a single
work room"

Printing

Publishing (embeddable sessions in any web property)

Export to PDF

SOON

Administration

Detailed participant permission settings

Logging of participant usage statistics

Easy to invite meeting participants

Always-on session management dashboard

Extensibility

Application programming interface (server-side API)

Ability to create plug-ins (client-side API)

Customization

Custom session URLs

Custom branding

Custom color themes and custom banner ads

*Adobe Connect requires additional install for presenter only.

This comparison chart is accurate as of September 2008. If there is anything that you find
questionable or incorrect, please contact us and we will update this comparison chart with the appropriate changes.

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